For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.
I loathe tomatoes on burgers and will throw it in your face if you serve it to me.
Absolutely pointless taste wise and all that water is what makes the bread and patty move around with no respect for each other.
Ooooh them’s fighting words. Have you tried a burger with a homegrown tomato? Pretty night and day, might just change your mind.
[Image description: a plate with a burger and sides. The burger is open and ready to be assembled, one bun has sauce and a slice of an heirloom tomato, the other has the patty, cheese, pickles and bacon.]
That’s the ugliest tomato I’ve ever seen on a burger!
Hah! You must broaden your horizons beyond a basic red tomato.
This guy tomatoes.
Well that’s definitely a tomato I’ve never seen - wild! My most interesting this year is probably the German Striped but I’m going to have to try those tie-dyes I think
German Striped and variants of them are my better half’s favorite. I’ve read that the thing to look for is green/brown shoulders on heirloom tomatoes as that is where all the tomatoey flavor comes from, and is the real reason redder tomatoes tend to be tastier than pale ones.
Oh, cool! This will be my first time trying them, and I’m definitely looking forward to it.
I haven’t heard that before but it does make sense - I’ll have to keep that in mind on my tomato journey haha
TIL
That looks really weird. Not knowing about it, I’d assume the tomato isn’t ripe yet in that state.
But I assume it’s perfectly ripened and delicious?Yes, there are all sorts of tomatoes, coming in various shapes, sizes, and colors. They all have different tastes too, although it is going to taste like a tomato to some degree.
I’m going to look around for something like this where I live. I’ve only ever come into contact with the “normal” tomatoes, but I’m intrigued.
They’re all heirloom tomatoes. There are heirloom varieties of other things too. Tons of more flavors exist than what you are presented in the supermarket!
In addition to color variety, different tomatoes have different textures. A farmer’s market is more likely to have a grower who knows the difference than a grocery store with a small heirloom basket where the staff just pit out what they have.
Like some are more firm, or have more juice, and with a lot of variety like apples.
Imo the more fucked up the tomato looks the better it tastes.
Eh… Not always…sometimes they taste the way they look.
Does it not taste or feel like you’re eating a tomato? Because those are the parts of eating tomatoes that I don’t like.
While there are differences in textures and flavors, different kinds of tomatoes are like different kinds of apples. Someone might just not like apples or tomatoes and never find one they enjoy, and someone else might only like one or a few types.
All tomatoes will have the firm outside and structure with liquid parts. Even with the variance on firmness and amount of liquid, they are all clearly tomatoes.
That is exactly why I avoid getting tomatoes on my burgers in restaurants except for when I cook my own, the homegrown tomato has to be there. I am still shocked at how different the taste is.
See reply here: https://beehaw.org/comment/476775
However, I bet that tomato can be removed and you wouldn’t even notice if no one told you
I disagree completely but I appreciate your candor and, frankly, accurate analysis.
Not telling you how to live your life but if I may offer a different perspective: tomatoes can be very flavourful but the ones you buy at supermarkets won’t be. Your stance might simply be due to not having had good tomatoes? (which is fine in its own right but I will not stand for tomato slander)
They can be, sure. I enjoy tomatoes otherwise. I can enjoy eating them like an apple or those cute cherry ones as snacks. But generally there are other ingredients on a burger (dressing, cheeses, bacon, whatever) that makes the tomato disappear completely and just become a watery slice of nothing but annoyance.
Tomatoes are fine, just keep them of my burgers.
Yeah that seems fair
I agree that the usual tomato does not bring anything in a burger. It’s a tradition that should stop.
However I’m not against having a slice of nice tomato in a special burger.
Bread, some good olive oil and nice tomatoes can be an amazing sandwich.
100% agree
You gotta try heirloom tomatoes. Completely different food compared to the waterfilled Beefsteak and Roma varieties you find in the supermarket.
Man a good tomato could just be eaten on its own with a little salt. Delicious, can’t wait for ours to come in, about a dozen different varieties each more delicious and beautiful than the last. 😋
Oh yes a good tomato is “a poem”, as we say in German (Gericht=meal and Gedicht=poem sound similar, maybe that’s the origin of this? careful, Gericht can also mean court [of law])
I really like that! I knew Gericht as court of law from my very limited German.
I have, they are great, but keep them of my burger
Hence ketchup
No, ketchup is wrong. I don’t mean on burgers specifically, I mean in general
Them’s fightin’ words
I stand by my statement - malt vinegar and tomato do not belong together. I don’t know if /m/ketchuphate exists yet but it’s valid!
Seems very likely you’re eating bad tomatoes, sliced at the wrong thickness and on poorly constructed burgers.
I could make you a burger with tomato that would make you cry with joy. There are few actual “bad” foods/combinations, just the wrong chef preparing them who is usually undereducated on the nuance of a given cuisine.
A problem with the internet is that because you hold the world’s knowledge in your pocket, many start to think they hold the world’s knowledge in their heads. Just because it “feels” like your cooking, doesn’t mean you’re a chef. A YouTube video doesn’t make an expert, it might make a convincing copy that can’t improvise to save it’s life because it lacks a basic knowledge of foundational concepts.
It’s like chat GPT; yes, it drew hands, at a glance, but if you look closer you’ll see there are 8 fingers, extra knuckles, no fingernails and no bone structure within the fingers - because the program doesn’t actually know what it’s doing. So you and I may both have burgers with tomatoes on our plates, but we’re having entirely different experiences.
Unfortunately, being a chef feels too accessible as a concept and marketing patches many wounds, hence the boom in food trucks and YouTube channels run by “chefs” churning out garbage.
See, I dont really disagree with anything you say. Its just that on that burger you make that willmake me cry of joy… Its not the tomato that breaks or makes it. Its not going to be the tomato that pushes me to tears. No matter how good that tomato is, that’s not what makes the burger.
I’ve had amazing tomatoes, the tomato itself is not the problem. Its the tomato on a burger. It might, in the best of cases, enrich it. But it will never make it, or break it. And in the most cases, it’s just annoying fluff
That’s very dependant on the other characteristics of the burger and the protein type and size. I’ve had tomatoes stand out in a beautiful way in certain burgers that would have been less without them.
The acid and sweetness in certain tomatoes, cut and compliment the fat/salt in say a seasoned beef patty. There are also texture and temperature contrast when prepared correctly. In certain combinations, both are less without the other. That acid cutting the fat of the beef actually chemically changes the way that your taste buds translate the bite. So in some cases you might not think of the tomato first as you bite, but it’s actually changing the way you taste other ingredients, like the beef.
Again, hard to convince someone “outside the circle” on a concept like this, but the wrong person is making your burger, friend :)
Source: worked as a chef in Michelin starred restaurants for years.
Whether it causes it to move around depends entirely on the order you fill it
I deem this opinion absolute fact. Unless you’re at Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, CT, you have no need for a tomato on burger.
Oh man. At one point I wouldn’t even eat tomatoe unless it was on a burger. Burgers were my tomato enablers.
Microsoft Word is a bad piece of software that is poorly designed, laughably unoptimized, and mostly dysfunctional. It’s like a passenger car with seven wheels arranged in an irregular septagon, a 1 gallon gas tank, and a kitchen stool for a seat.
Also hype clothes are a tremendous waste and reveal the hollowness and meaninglessness that underlies most fashion
Microsoft Word…
That’s neither an opinion nor petty; those are just straight facts.
Microsoft Word is a bad piece of software
and it’s constantly begging you to buy into it or register.
nope
installs and cues up Libre office
I hate Microsoft Word. It’s so inefficient. When the template breaks and you spend an hour trying to fix some formatting. Just give me a latex template and let me focus on the actual content please.
Microsoft everything
This but Outlook. Thunderbird is superior in every way. Exchange is a PITA. E-mail is e-mail - it’s been the same for 30+ years. Why is Outlook always so broken?
“Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders could not be opened.” Why not? It’s not rocket science. It’s just e-mail! And the only solution? Delete the profile and start again, only for Outlook to spit out an equally unhelpful error a week and a half later. How could software so expensive and so widely used be so unstable??
Microsoft Word works fine the few times that I do use it, but I mostly use LATEX and maybe some markdown.
It’s fine as long as you don’t try to write quicky, or get into the zone as you write, or format the text, or use multimedia elements, or - god forbid - enter a bulleted list. The combination of the massive install file, slow operating, unintuitive layout, and fully just broken autoformatting means that using Word adds like 20-30% to the completion time of any project longer than a page, in addition to making it look like crap unless you invest a ton of effort.
Word would instantly fail if launched today as a new product. It exists and is used because Microsoft has a monopoly on office software, and for no other reason. Even Apple’s alternative is better despite having no new features, just because some effort was put in to make it look decent and give the user control over the document.
And yeah latex is excellent for the end results, although it’s also clunky and awkward to actually compose in.
Just update word 03 with some security and bug fixes and be done with it. It still does literally everything anyone ever did with word.
I had to look up Hype clothing. So it’s just branded super expensive basic clothes? Is this popular for some reason.
Yeah. Supreme is the ultimate example, but also stuff like yeezees. And far be it from me to judge those more fashionable than myself. But most streetwear / hype stuff is just normal stuff but really shit quality and with the price upped by an order of magnitude b/c of intense social media FOMO. So, so dumb
@Nanokindled @thrawn21 this is an r/brandnewsentence right here. If there’s a c/ for it lemme know people!
Do you have a suggestion for a replacement? I’ve been looking for something to write in and didn’t want to buy MS office.
@GraceGH @Nanokindled LibreOffice. Great software, works as you would expect.
The UI/UX leaves a lot to be desired though.
If you’re on mac, Pages is a cleaner, better-designed version that’s much more pleasant to write in.
Mellel is a feature-rich Serious Pants writing tool, perfect for books and dissertations. (Also Mac only)
Scrivener remains the most powerful word processor I know of, with amazing overview, structuring, and mix and match features.
If you throw cigarette butts on the ground you’re probably shittier than average person in many other ways too
Artificial sweeteners is one of the reasons I’m not obese. You can quote me all the studies you want, diet coke is not a gateway drink to regular coke, and splenda on my black coffee doesn’t make me crave a caramel macchiato.
I don’t care about the calories. Artificial sweeteners taste like plastic cancer, so it’s normal coke for me.
I’m kind on the same hill. I find that artificial sweetener leave a terrible taste in the mouth.
The worst is that some regular drinks are using sugar plus sweetener. I got this bad surprise now than once after taking the first sip.
I completely agree and don’t know how other people don’t notice the awful taste? Like the aftertaste is sooo gross and sticks around for awhile. Maybe it’s genetics and taste buds related. I also get bloated and headaches from things like sucralose.
On another note though I have actually found an artificial sweetener that doesn’t taste like ass and doesn’t have negative side effects like sucralose for me. Xylitol has been great and I can finally chew gum again that’s good for my teeth too.
I wonder if there’s a genetic competent to it like cilantro. I like aspartame, hate acesulfame potassium, and stevia is kinda meh.
I have given up on finding an artificial sweetener that doesn’t give me headaches. I’m kind of glad that they taste terrible because that way I can detect them before consuming enough that a headache is unavoidable.
Yeah. Those “reduced sugar” products. Even if they declare “only natural taste, no artificial flavorings”, they still might have sweeteners.
Aspartame gave me terrible headaches. Then I became diabetic. Turns out by that time sucralose was more popular. It doesn’t give me headaches and it tastes fine. After so long of having sucralose, I can now tolerate aspartame. Still gross though.
Artificial sweeteners are also one of the reasons I’m alive. Shout outs type 1 diabetes gang.
If only they could start having more than fucking diet coke at restaurants when it comes to pop
Too true. Luckily, Coke Zero seems to be gaining some popularity in my area.
I’ve never tried tasting toxic waste, but Diet Coke can’t be far off.
They’re also one of the most heavily studied food additives and if it was going to poison you big-sugar would let us know.
Aspartame is the only artificial food additive I feel has been studied so much that’s it’s all but guaranteed to be safe for human consumption (unless you lack the ability to process certain proteins, but you know that if that’s you)
Sucralose and other more novel alcohol sugars (ethyritol/monkfruit) are slightly more questionable to me, but should still be fine in moderation.
Possibly also depends on your body in other ways. I have yet to find an artificial sweetener that doesn’t give me headaches. Multiple times I had a headache for seemingly no reason and found out something I consumed a few hours earlier had artificial sweeteners. Same goes for too much licorice or stevia.
Yeah some people are sensitive to Phenylalanine without having Phenylketonuria, relatively uncommon. As with all things natural or not you should listen to what your body tells you there is no one reaction to anything. Eggs and dairy can also be high in this amino acid.
I have no problem at all with either eggs or dairy, so it must be something else. I suspect it’s my brain registering sweetness and telling the respective glands to prepare for an influx of sugars which then fail to appear, leading to those headaches.
Yeah. I don’t get it either. Artificial sweetners are way more effective at stimulating your tastebuds than sugar for the calories.
Why would anyone switch to an inferior product which ruins your health if they have the option not to??
I can taste all of the artificial sweeteners. My spouse uses them constantly and they taste sideways to me. My partner doesn’t taste much of a difference so If we ever get drinks mixed up I’m the poison tester.
The only way to get them to taste fine enough is by using a mixture of a few different ones. I’m sure my experience is similar to people who have the cilantro soap thing.
I think high fructose corn syrup taste like literal poison. I can taste it in anything and everything it’s in. Funny thing though. Your tastebuds acclimate, and you get used to flavors (either HFCS or Aspartame). I still struggle with stevia, sometimes, but it’s far easier to look past than high fructose corn syrup.
Artificial sweetners do taste “off” to me, but tastebuds can acclimate to it. The rest of my digestive system? Not so much. Let’s just say there is a reason it is pronounced ASS-partame.
My partner has been doing low carb for around 5 years now. I’m assuming it takes longer? I usually try everything they make. From ice cream to syrups to cakes.
Real talk though, I love xanthan gum. I know it’s garbage.
It tastes like pesticides to me.
For me it’s because aspartame and other artificial sweeteners taste bad. I don’t have a huge sweet tooth, so it’s not really a big issue for me anyway, but if I do want something sweet I’m not looking at healthier options at the cost of taste.
It’s kind of an acquired taste. Diet Coke has tasted better to me over time.
WHO says sugar alternatives not effective for weight loss. I think this would also generally imply that they do not prevent weight gain. I think you likely just don’t gain weight regardless of sweetener; like how I and most of my family don’t gain weight regardless of what we eat. That is to say our habits and decisions don’t allow for weight gain regardless of sweetener, not that we have some genetic thing processes sugar differently or anything so unlikely.
Though yes, I also disagree with that strawman argument, diet coke being a gateway pop or artificial sweeteners being gateway sugar seems a bit rediculous.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/health/who-sweeteners-weigh-loss-guideline-wellness/index.htmlI think it’s important to note that this was strictly an observational study that they explicitly describe as “conditional”. They don’t go into the how or why of it. It could be that it’s a negligible change or that participants overindulge elsewhere because they cut it out of sweeteners or that the most at-risk use sugar alternatives or that they lose weight in the short term (mentioned in the article) before reaching their new maintained weight.
Honestly, I think the last part is very likely, or a mix of many of those. They say it doesn’t have a long-term effect, although it can have a short-term effect. So if you decrease your calorie intake a little, you’ll lose weight until your calorie output matches (less weight mean less effort to move).
So, it’s not an end-all solution.
Yes, I read about this too recently, but this is not true for me. I actually gain weight easily so I count calories religiously. 1.5 liters of diet coke is around 4 calories (equal to two tictacs), compared to 630 calories (around three bowls of cereal with milk) for regular coke. I mean just from that substitution it’ll obviously prevent weight gain in my opinion.
I get the bitterness flavor from artificial sweeteners, but I just want a my Dr pepper to be less sweet.
Yeah. Actually, regular coke was my gateway drink to a coke zero lol, in my case. Like… if I consume too much sugar, I will feel anxious, hyper, and just… meh.
But Coca Cola Zero? I will mostly feel fine. And even more so, I found… the Zero to taste better than standard Coke? So, its a win-win for me :D
Personally I find the artificial sweeteners are more addictive than regular sugar because they’re so much sweeter. Plus if I’m going to have a cookie, I’d rather it be homemade rather than some processed crap.
Vanilla is NOT a boring flavour. It is the best flavour and most versatile flavour!!! Describing things as vanilla should not be synonymous with boring and I’ll fight anyone who argues otherwise
I feel you friend! Vanilla is the baseline flavour because it’s good and versatile, not boring!
I always considered Vanilla to mean default and not “boring”. I feel like only a minority of people interpret it that way and even fewer use it that way.
Good vanilla, properly used, is excellent.
If fisticuffs are called for, I’ve got your back.
And french vanilla is a top #3 ice cream flavour
Those big SUV like Ford f150 should be illegal, for real. They are super long and tall, the driver can barely see what’s right in front, it’s dangerous for everyone not in the car. Cars should have stricter limits on size, if it’s bigger, you need a special license.
Microtransactions are not acceptable in full retail single player games. I don’t care if it’s only cosmetics. If i pay 60 bucks for it, i better get the whole damn thing. Looking at you, Diablo 4.
Punctuation that denotes pauses like , ; : should be placed based on where the writer wants a pause and how long the pause should be, or when needed to avoid ambiguity, NOT on the bullshit arbitrary grammar “rules” that got made up to sell grammar books and enforce the class divide.
It’s very easy to find classics full of “bad” grammar when it comes to the punctuation because it’s in fact not bad.
Nice to see another fan of the Shatner Comma on the fediverse.
I’ve never heard it called the “Shatner Comma” until today, and I will never, call it anything else.
Discovered it years ago!
Holy shit, another person who calls it that! I found it on accident years ago and I love to use that term.
Wholeheartedly agree, it’s not like the best authors ever follow those rules in that way, grammar should be used to enhance readability, pacing, and tone when you have a good idea how it may be read.
This is how I do it, and I’m not sorry.
It’s very easy to find classics full of “bad” grammar when it comes to the punctuation because it’s in fact not bad.
This is wrong for at least four reasons:
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Incidents of “incorrect” punctuation in classics is due in large part to the role of various punctuation marks changing over time. For example, the semicolon was once used at the end of questions like a question mark. The em-dash was used in earlier modern English for long pauses, but is no longer.
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“Classics” is a broad category, and they were written for many different purposes and audiences: they should not necessarily be held as paragons of style. If you’re trying to write intentionally, and for a large audience, the grammatical use of punctuation is helpful. For example, Emily Dickinson’s poems were primarily written for herself, and were highly stylistic. Not a style you’d want to replicate when writing, for example, a newspaper article.
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There is a punctuation which explicitly denotes a pause: the en-dash. Why use punctuation which has a specific purpose to do the exact same thing?
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Different dialects use pause in different ways. Just as purely phonetic spelling would be terrible for internationally audiences, purely phonetic spelling would make texts more difficult to understand. You say punctuation rules enforce a class divide. I say they help bridge class divides by giving a common set of rules not based on and particular English.
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But the purpose of those punctuation marks is not to denote a pause. They each have their own individual purpose.
Writer here. Don’t blindly follow dumb style rules. I write how I speak; and when you write how you speak, you end up using a lot of semicolons and em dashes (if you’re competent). Each “pausing-type” punctuation means something specific, and they are all vital for clarity and natural flow. And informal or spliced sentences are good. Style rules are too formal, and sometimes as antiquated as “‘ain’t aint’ a word”. So instead do what works— what makes things natural and easy to read.
This is an idea that would’ve never crossed my mind due to the school system but I love it. Now to see if my teachers will xD
Or just go the Cormac McCarthy route and wage a lifelong holy war against it.
This is more of a meta thing, but relevant to a lot of comments I’m seeing here. Having an opinion about pineapple on pizza is the most uninteresting cultural phenomenon. I’ve spent the last 4 years on dating apps, and at least 1 in 3 people write in their bio about this “issue”. It’s not something that people truly have strong feelings about, it’s like straight men saying Ryan Reynolds is attractive, or people arguing over the definition of a sandwich. It’s an opinion that people hold as a proxy for being somebody with strong opinions.
The Oxford comma is an absolute requirement unless you prefer to be intentionally vague.
Subscription services are not worth it, period. Phone and internet bills are all you need to get everything you want at the best possible qualities in the best possible formats. Subscription services are only convenient for the lazy who don’t know how to use the internet.
There are three drinks you can call a martini:
- A martini is gin and vermouth, maybe with some bitters if you like
- A vodka martini is vodka and vermouth, bitters again optional
- A vesper martini is gin, vodka, and lillet blanc
- Any of the above can be made “dirty” with olive brine if you want
Anything else is a cocktail in a martini glass. No shade if you like apple schnapps, lemon juice, and vodka, drink what you like, but it’s not a martini.
Knowledge is ordering a martini because you want gin. Wisdom is specifying a “gin martini” to the bartender.
Ah, as a fan of martinis this is a hill I could also die on
TIL that a standard Martini is made with gin. I always thought vodka was the default so whenever I’ve ordered a Martini I’ve specified gin because I fucking love gin.
Happiness is finding 3 olives in your martini when you are hungry.
100% agreed
Former linguistics grad student here: The meaning of “literal” is changing, and sentences like “That guy is literally 500 years old” are correct.
Monday is the first day of the week.
Do people actually think otherwise?
American here: I fully accept that Monday as first day of the week makes more logical sense, but my brain can’t reverse years of programming. I get very confused and make mistakes if I look at a calendar that starts on Monday.
The more I learn about america the weirder it gets.
I find that all countries do some pretty weird things. Some more than others, Japan.
It’s just the old way of numbering the days of the week. Sabbath is the last day of the week in Judaism, a numbering Christianity continued to use, and Sabbath is Saturday. Early Christians came up with the idea to start the week with worship as well, so Sunday mass was added. Over time, Sunday mass became more prominent (probably also because people started to see Judaism negatively), but the numbering remained.
The average modern person and cultures that weren’t “born” in the context of Christianity didn’t know that though, and saying all the special weekdays are at the end of the week is less complicated, especially in combination with the term “weekend” that grew to encompass both days, so most people and cultures count Sunday as the last day of the week now.
Edit: Btw, in Judaism days start when the previous day’s sun sets, rather than at midnight or sunrise. This might be relevant for why Friday is a special day in Islam, as from our perspective, jews begin to follow their Sabbath rules on Friday evening.
The traditional view is that Sunday is the first day of the week. Sabbath (Saturday) is the seventh day, therefore Sunday must be the first day. The original idea of Sunday mass was to start the week with worship.
I had a job once that when you clocked your hours the week started on Sunday. Didn’t change anything about when I got paid but damn was it annoying because I kept a personal spreadsheet to log hours and I started the week on Monday.
In some languages, the word for Wednesday would be translated as “mid-week”. I think the logic follows from that.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English37•1 year ago
Phones are for talking, navigating, and casual content consumption. Desktops (and laptops) are for actually getting things done. Both are useful, but the former is not a substitute for the latter.
Tablets are oversized phones that can’t even phone. I don’t see any use for them that isn’t better served by something else. They’d actually be useful if they ran a desktop operating system, and some early ones did, but modern ones don’t.